Louisville, OH: Louisville Brick and Tile Company, 1913. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Small quarto, pp.52, illustrated with b/w photographs. Some light pencil inscriptions on the cover and in a few places in the text. This company built permanent silos from brick, with cypress doors, intending them to be more permanent..... More
Chicago, IL: Operative Plasterers & Cement Finishers International Association, 1923. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 40, illustrated with b/w photographs. This was the official monthly journal of the Operative Plasterers and Cement Finishers International Association.This issue features a report by Donlin delivered at the 17th annual convention held..... More
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1926. Reissue. Staplebound Wraps. 24mo (4" x 5.5"), pp. 43, illustrated with b/w drawings. Preservation Trades Network member and Askins Award winner James Turner just reprinted this booklet. He noted in the forward, "As time has passed, we seem to have lost a clear and direct..... More
New York: Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company, 1911. Original edition. Leatherette, bound w/cloth ties. Oblong quarto, pp. 56. Full color 6" x 8" marble tile sample on each page. An outstanding source of information about the many colors, patterns and qualities of marble. A very scarce and valuable volume. These catalogs were..... More
Bath, NY: Combination Ladder Company, nd c. 1930. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp 36, illustrated with b/w drawings. A scarce and historic trade piece from a company that produced light, durable ladders from air-dried spruce lumber and cadmium hardware to prevent rust. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First edition. Boards. Small quarto, pp. 26 plus 34 b/w photographic plates. Book plate from a previous owner adhered to front endpaper. Sir William Chambers was a Scottish-Swedish architect based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, London (1776) and the pagoda..... More
London: Archetype Books, 2007. First edition. Decorated Boards, black. Quarto, pp. 214, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. The Proceedings of the second conference "Architectural Paint Research in Building Conservation," held in Denmark in 2005. Features 26 papers presented by world experts in architectural paint isssues. Well documented, illustrated and indexed..... More
London: George Virtur, nd (circa 1844). Enlarged and improved edition. Leather Bound with new cloth spine. Quarto, pp 122 and pp 8 on measuring. Illustrated throughout with b/w construction drawings. Peter Nicholson (1765-1844) was a Scottish architect, mathematician and engineer. Largely self-taught, he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker, but..... More
Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 1992. Second Printing. Paperback Original. Quarto, pp. 151, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Here is the definitive survey of woodworking joints for builders and craftsmen. More than 450 variations on 66 basic joints are explained. You'll learn when and where to use each joint..... More
New York: Palliser, Palliser & Co., 1880/1883. Third edition, revised and greatly enlarged. Cloth over Boards. 12 mo, pp. viii, 98. Illustrated with nearly 100 woodcuts. 4 pages of trade advertisements at the back. A very early and scarce Hodgson title, one which shows the full functionality of the carpenter's..... More
